Neil Blomkamp is een geniale film regisseur die voor ons geeks en nerds perfecte science-fiction films maakt. Nu zal binnenkort zijn nieuwste film Chappie in de bioscopen te zien zijn, en daarom had hij alvast een interview met de website ComingSoon. Waar van je hier onder alvast een stukje kunt lezen.

ComingSoon.net: I know a little bit about the short and how this evolved out of that, and that came out around the same time as District 9?

Neill Blomkamp: No, it's way older. It was around 2002 or 2003. I was trying to get out of doing visual effects and move into music videos and commercials, so I was trying to direct basically and just show that I had a collection of work so I could get representation as a commercial director. I shot that piece, which in retrospect is kind of a weird piece, because it's not a Nike commercial. I would have done better trying to get into commercials if I did a fake Gatorade commercial, but I did something that I loved and that's always a good thing. I just wanted to see a police robot in Africa. But that didn't lead to this film though. What led to this film was that while I was writing Elysium, I was writing those droids in that movie, and I was listening to Die Antwoord separately. One night, I just came up with the idea of that band raising one of these robots. That is really the genesis of this film, and then I was like "Well, I've already done a police robot thing way back." I'll just tie the name to that and a couple of other things. So I used Tetrovaal as the company.